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Spreading the Disease is the best Belladonna album. Persistence of Time is a very close second though.
Just a couple of months ago you were talking about how boring that album is, and actually posted here that you were going to get rid of it, what changed? I agree, it is their best, it beefed up the aggression from the debut, but it has better vocals and still retained the strong melodies that they would lose on Among the Living.
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Just a couple of months ago you were talking about how boring that album is, and actually posted here that you were going to get rid of it, what changed? I agree, it is their best, it beefed up the aggression from the debut, but it has better vocals and still retained the strong melodies that they would lose on Among the Living.
Because I'm retarded and my eyes saw Spreading the Disease but my brain saw Among the living. Wow...haven't done that in a while, lol. No, I traded STD for Kyle's CD. ATL is their best.
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Anthrax - Spreading The Disease vs Among The Living?

Because I'm retarded and my eyes saw Spreading the Disease but my brain saw Among the living. Wow...haven't done that in a while, lol. No, I traded STD for Kyle's CD. ATL is their best.
Probably because of the lyrics at the start of the title track on ATL, "Disease! Disease! Spreading the disease!
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Neither' date=' Anthrax's only good songs are I'm the Man, because it's funny and weird, and Indians, because it's historical which makes it cool, the rest of their stuff sucks[/quote'] That seems a bit harsh. While nowhere near the top of the heap for even their region, let alone thrash in general, they did still release some good material.
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Love both albums, but Spreading the Disease is just so much fun. It's not as well written, and has a bit of filler, but like somebody said about the melodies. Never again would Joey be able to just sing the way he was allowed to on that album. On Among the Living he was reigned in to fit into the more aggressive sound, but STD just let him belt his lungs out like a mini-Bruce Dickinson. His version of "Armed and Dangerous" is one of the band's most underrated. Every time I hear it I just have to singalong like a jackass. "OOOOHHHHH OOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! ARMED AND DANGEROOOUUUS!!! OOOOHHHH OH!!! ARMED AND DANGEROUS!!!!"

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Love both albums' date=' but [i']Spreading the Disease is just so much fun. It's not as well written, and has a bit of filler, but like somebody said about the melodies. Never again would Joey be able to just sing the way he was allowed to on that album. On Among the Living he was reigned in to fit into the more aggressive sound, but STD just let him belt his lungs out like a mini-Bruce Dickinson. His version of "Armed and Dangerous" is one of the band's most underrated. Every time I hear it I just have to singalong like a jackass. "OOOOHHHHH OOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! ARMED AND DANGEROOOUUUS!!! OOOOHHHH OH!!! ARMED AND DANGEROUS!!!!"
I think that many of the thrash bands that tried to adopt the more chunky, less melodic approach in the mid-late 80's suffered as a consequence, as they still couldn't match the brutality of their more vile sounding peers, and lost what made them memorable and enjoyable.
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I think that many of the thrash bands that tried to adopt the more chunky' date=' less melodic approach in the mid-late 80's suffered as a consequence, as they still couldn't match the brutality of their more vile sounding peers, and lost what made them memorable and enjoyable.[/quote'] I think the real problem was that Anthrax stayed too melodic with that chunky rhythm guitar, making the album sound a lot weaker today. Scott Ian played similarly on Speak English or Die much of the time, but that album holds up far better since it left melody largely in the dust and went for pure brutality.
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I think the real problem was that Anthrax stayed too melodic with that chunky rhythm guitar' date= making the album sound a lot weaker today. Scott Ian played similarly on Speak English or Die much of the time, but that album holds up far better since it left melody largely in the dust and went for pure brutality.
That's what I'm meaning though, most of the bands of the era conformed to the chunky palm-muted triplet formula even when it didn't for with their sound, which is why many mid-80's thrash albums fall flatter with me than albums from earlier or later in the scene.
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